Letter: Cities, businesses don’t take water conservation seriously

Good article in the Sept 14 edition. [Working to Change Attitudes About Water Conservation.] Much like the garbage we have floating around in the space above our planet, one shouldn’t waste water if one can possibly help it, even if you think you have a lot of it, like some might have thought you couldn’t pollute the space around Earth.

But it’s hard to get serious about conserving water when you call the city about a main shutoff valve leak on your street and nothing is done for two days, except a small orange cone being placed on the leak, which has since fallen over. They tell you to fix faucet drips as soon as you can for fear of wasting a hundred to two litres of water. In my estimation, they let run 25,000 to 30,000 litres already and no fix in site. Good grief.

Not to mention the businesses I see downtown on my way to work that are regularly watering the sidewalks and streets. Things like this cause conversations of water conservation to fall on deaf ears.